Improvement in match-safe and lamp combined



G. JAGOBI. Match-Safe and Lamp Combined.

No. 199,444. Patented Jain. 22,1878.

N. PETERS, FHdTO LITHCIGRAPNEH, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES JAGOBI, OF RANSOM, ILLINOIS.

, IMPROVEMENT IN MATCH-SAFE AND LAMP COMBINED.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,444, dated January 22,1878 application filed November 6, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES J AGOBI, of Ransom, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Match-Safe and Lamp Oombined, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to enable travelers and others who cannot always have a regular lamp or gas-light, when such is needed, to supply the want with a lamp in a very portable shape, which will burn long enough for traveling emergencies, and which, being absolutely safe from explosion, has also a matchsafe attached, the combination producing a portable instrument of great usefulness.

My invention is illustrated more in detail in the side view, Figure 1, the vertical section,

Fig. 2, and the plan view, Fig. 3.

The lamp A is of peculiar construction,hav-

ing inside a cylinder, B, made of wire-gauze,

which is nearly filled with loose cotton or other porous material, C, leaving only a short space above for a lamp-wick, 1).. The tube E, holding the lampwick, is screwed on by means of the thumbscrew F in the ordinary way of coal-oil lamps; and a cover, G, is fitted on, so as to prevent the oil from soiling the clothes in carrying the lamp about, the said cover G having inside a tube, H, which fits tightly over the wick-tubeE.

In filling the lamp with coal-oil, the whole inside space is filled, it being well known that a flame cannot pass througha wire-gauze. The space inside the wire-gauze cylinder B being nearly filled with cotton or wicking of course there is very little room left for explosive gases inder, B, and the cover G, with a closing-tube,

H, in combination with the match-safe I, sub stantially as described.

CHARLES JAGOBI; Witnesses:

EDWARD Rosa,

JEREMIAH SAMPLE. 

